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Race and the Making of American Liberalism
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Race and the Making of American Liberalism
Sinopsis
Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces
the roots of the contemporary crisis
of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's
racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary
conservative claim that the American liberal
tradition has been rooted in a color blind
conception of individual rights is innaccurate
and misleading. In contrast, American liberalism
has alternatively served both to support and
oppose racial hierarchy, as well as
socioeconomic inequality more broadly. Racial
politics in the United States have repeatedly
made it exceedingly difficult to establish
powerful constituencies that understand
socioeconomic equity as vital to American
democracy and aspire to limit gross disparities
of wealth, power, and status. Revitalizing such
equalitarian conceptions of American liberalism,
Horton suggests, will require developing new
forms of racial and class identity that support,
rather than sabotage this fundamental political
commitment.
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Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces
the roots of the contemporary crisis of
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progressive liberalism deep into the nation's
racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary
conservative claim that the American liberal
tradition has been rooted in a color blind
conception of individual rights is innaccurate
and misleading. In contrast, American liberalism
has alternatively served both to support and
oppose racial hierarchy, as well as
socioeconomic inequality more broadly. Racial
politics in the United States have repeatedly
made it exceedingly difficult to establish
powerful constituencies that understand
socioeconomic equity as vital to American
democracy and aspire to limit gross disparities
of wealth, power, and status. Revitalizing such
equalitarian conceptions of American liberalism,
Horton suggests, will require developing new
forms of racial and class identity that support,
rather than sabotage this fundamental political
commitment.